Tommye Blount
Tommye Blount | |
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Born | Detroit, Michigan |
Citizenship | American |
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Genre | Poetry |
Tommye Blount is a Black, queer poet from Detroit, MI.[1][2] He is the author of the poetry collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue and the chapbook What Are We Not For. Fantasia for the Man in Blue was a 2020 National Book Award Finalist in the Poetry category.[3]
Personal life[]
Blount was born in Detroit, Michigan.[4] Blount attended Michigan State University for his undergraduate degree[5] and earned an MFA from , graduating in 2013.[6] He lives in Novi, Michigan.[7]
Career[]
Blount is the author of the book Fantasia for the Man in Blue which was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry.[8] He is also the author of the chapbook What Are We Not For.[9]
Blount is a Cave Canem Fellow,[10] a 2017 Literary Arts Fellow at Kresge Arts in Detroit,[11] and a fellow of Bread Loaf Writer's Conference[12]
Works[]
Poems[]
- "The Pedestrian" (Academy of American Poets)[13]
- "The Bug" (Poetry, January 2015)[14]
- "The Tongue" (Poetry, January 2015)[15]
Chapbooks[]
- What Are We Not For (2016, Bull City Press) ISBN 978-1495157639
Books[]
- Fantasia for the Man in Blue (2020, Four Way Books) ISBN 978-1945588495
Awards[]
- 2020 – National Book Award for Poetry, Finalist[16]
External links[]
References[]
- ^ "Tommye Blount". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "5 Debut Queer Poets on What to Read for the Sealey Challenge". Cave Canem. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "National Book Awards 2020". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "Tommy Blount". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2020-10-09.CS1 maint: others (link)
- ^ "Tommye Blount:No One Gets Off the Hook in My Poems". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "An Interview with Alumnus Tommye Blount". The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "Tommye Blount". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "National Book Awards 2020". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "What Are We Not For by Tommye Blount". Bull City Press. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "Tommye Blount". Cave Canem. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "Tommye Blount". Kresge Arts in Detroit. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "Tommye Blount". Poets.org. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "The Pedestrian by Tommye Blount". Poets.org.
- ^ "The Bug by Tommye Blount". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Magazine. 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2020-10-09.CS1 maint: others (link)
- ^ "The Tongue by Tommye Blount". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Magazine. 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2020-10-09.CS1 maint: others (link)
- ^ "National Book Awards 2020". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- Living people
- 21st-century American poets
- LGBT African Americans
- LGBT people from Michigan
- LGBT writers from the United States
- American LGBT poets
- American male poets
- African-American poets
- 21st-century American male writers
- Queer men
- Queer writers
- 21st-century African-American writers